„Seven sister project” in Moscow is one of most ambitious projects in mid-20th century. Between 1947 and 1953 on the orders of Jozef Stalin they built seven similar skyscrapers that were meant to be rivals to USA’s skyscrapers.

In 2001 the construction of Triumph palace (also known as „the Eight sister”) started – it is 57 story building with approximately 1000 apartments. It was completed in 2003 and for 4 years it was known as Europe’s tallest building (264,1 meters).

The Triumph palace

Similar buildings to the original „Seven sisters” project can be found in some ex-Soviet Union countries.

Most well known is Palace of Culture and Science (237 meters) in Warsaw, Poland. It is tallest building in Poland and 8th tallest in Europe. Locals call this building „Pekin” (Bejing in Polish, because of its abbreviated name Pałac Kultury i Nauki – PKiN), „Pajac” („Clown” in Polish, because word sounds similar to „Pałac”), Stalin’s syringe” and „Russian Wedding cake”.

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Palace of Culture and Science

Latvian Academy of Science

Another attempt to make Stalinist style building was in Kiev (the Ukraine) – Hotel Ukraina.

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Aigars Ievins

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It’s true that about a _half_ of Poland territory was incorporated to Soviet Union after 2WW. Now this territory is located in Liethuania, Belarus and Ukraine.
But Poland, as “independed” country with its capital Warsaw was never administrative incorporated to SU.

Poland has never been in a damn soviet union. It was behind iron curtain, like east germany, but never a part of a soviet union, thanks God. And these buildings are ugly, we are still thinking how to get rid of this ugly building of soviet style in a beautiful Warsaw.

Ofcourse, and we also copy your way of walking on two legs, your way of reading and writing with a pen, your way of eating with a cuttlery and plates, your way of breathing through nose, your way way of solving 2 + 2, your way of brushing teeth, your way of living dressed up, your way of making babies, etc etc etc.

…..Except the Pencil must be sharpened, sending shards of graphite and wooden shavings floating around the cabin of the spacecraft…not sure how much of a problem that was with the crews of Soyuz and Salyut & MIR..
Also, America COULD have been first in space had we known at the time there was a competition 😉

As always America leads the way for the copycats!
Stalin hated America but copied buildings in New York!
Remove the wings from Moscow University and add about 50 floors to it and it would be the Empire State Building!

Ofcourse, and we also copy your way of walking on two legs, your way of reading and writing with a pen, your way of eating with a cuttlery and plates, your way of breathing through nose, your way way of solving 2 + 2, your way of brushing teeth, your way of living dressed up, your way of making babies, etc etc etc…

Remove the wings from Moscow University and add about 50 floors to it and it would be the Empire State Building!
Lol, this shows you’ve never seen MSU MB (main building, that’s how it’s commonly called amongst the students) or Empire State Building (or both). In fact, they have almost nothing in common. Even amongst the Seven Sisters, MB stands out considerably, not to mention something as unrelated as ESB.

what about the house of the people from Romania build by Ceausescu the 2th world big building in the world after pentagon (us.)”According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the Palace is the world’s largest civilian administrative building (The Pentagon is the largest overall), most expensive administrative building, and heaviest building.”

Though I’m sure the Soviet planners meant to invoke the Hesperides, to American ears it probably would have evoked the Seven Sisters oil companies–the companies that came out of the break up of Standard Oil in 1911 plus four other majors–Esso (later Exxon), Socony (later Mobil), Socal (later Chevron), Gulf Oil, Texaco, APOC (later BP), and Royal Dutch Shell. Thought you would enjoy the irony.

Poland was never in the Soviet Union.
Territories which were Poland’s land before WW2 were in the Soviet Union, they are now known (unfortunately) as Ukraine and Belarus.
But to say that Poland was in the Soviet Union is a historical error. Please correct it.